Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama film, Arnold investigates the polarized images of monstrous and sacrificing mother. more...

The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language , technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today?s ?digital film? productions. It reflects on how critical analysis? of film underpins practice and story, and how developing an autonomous ?vision? will best aid student creativity.
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Being a girl isn't always easy, and growing up is far from a walk in the park. This time of transition is particularly confusing without a confidante to help. Meet Sarah O'Leary Burningham, a real-life big sister here to coach preteens through all of life's big moments, from first bras to first periods. Filled with letters and testimonials from real... more...

?He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.? Insel , the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other?about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris. German painter Insel is a perpetual sponger and outsider?prone to writing... more...

Exclusion from school or college powerfully affects lives. In this book, three practising psychologists working with young people in inner cities explore the experiences of people who have been involved with exclusion from school: the child, the family, the excluding school, and the receiving unit. more...